Improvement in dumping-wagons



F. M. & W. F. PENNEBAKER.

DUMPING-WAGON.

Patented Oct. ,3, 1876.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES FRANCIS M. PENNEBAKER AND WILLIAM F. PENNEBAKER, OFPLEASANT PATENT OFFICE.

HILL, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUMPING-WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,955, dated October3, 1876; application filed June 26, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, F. M. PENNEEAKER and W.F. PENNEBAKER, of PleasantHill, in the county of Mercer and State ofKentucky, have invented a new and Improved Dumping- Wagon,ofwhich thefollowingis a specification:

Our invention consists of the combination, with the box contrived toslide back on the wagonfbed and tilt down behind for dumping,

' of a windlass under the drivers seat, and

cords so connected with the box that it can be run ont and allowed todump, and drawn back, all by the same windlass on which the cords Wind,so as not to obstruct or act against each other by reason of thenecessary variations in the paying out and Winding up of the cords.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved dumping-wagon, showing thebody tilted up, as in dumping. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is ahind-end elevation.

A is the bed of the wagon, on which the body B is arranged to slidebackward and forward for dumping out the load behind, by tilting up onthe hind end of the bed, as shown in Fig. l. G is the crank-shaft underthe drivers seat, for sliding the body forward and backward. It has onecord, D, attached to it,

and passing under pulleys E to the front end of the body, to which itJis connected and disconnected by a clutch, H, and having a cord,

I, attached to it, and connected to the front end of the body, fordrawing the body back after dumping.

The operation is as follows: By turning the windlass in one direction,the clutch causes the loose sleeve to turn with the windlass, while thecord D Winds up and draws the body back until it tips; the weight thenunwinds cord D by revolving the sleeve backward, and the cord I hasunwound. In drawing the body forward by winding up the cord I by areverse rotation of windlass, the sleeve and cord D are not aii'ected.Thus the body is shifted back and forth by the driver without leavingthe front of wagon, and with a single windlass.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe combination, with roller-bed A, having Windlass mechanism and box Bremovable on said bed, of the shaft-cord D, passing under pulleys E tofront of box, sh aft-cord I, attached to rear of box, and the clutchdevice Gr H, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose specied.

FRANCIS M. PENNEBAKER. WILLIAM F. PENNEBAKER. Witnesses:

JOHN FALCON, R. P. LATHAM.

